Top 60 Tobin Heath Quotes

I think defending is more of, like, a science, and it’s fun to learn that. And then I see attacking as an art.

I think you have to obviously be familiar with how the team wants to play and play to that style. But I think you also have to find a way to be yourself.

There is only one club in Manchester.

I always try and get as many as touches as I can with the ball because that’s the most important thing for me as a player is to feel comfortable in that way.

My first WPS season was a bust.

It was almost like I gravitated toward the people who were encouraging me to be like myself and to be creative and be different.

I think we have a big responsibility as the U.S. women’s national team for women’s football globally. I think everyone kind of looks up to us, whether they say they do or not. I think there is this awe and curiosity about what we’ve done in order to become as successful as we have.

Like many kids, I wanted to do my own thing so it wasn’t until around the end of high school and start of college that I started to develop my own faith.

I think football in general globally has a unique way of uniting people instead of dividing people.

I was always inspired by Brazilian football growing up. Those huge Nike campaigns, the Jogo Bonito campaigns that had Ronaldinho, that’s the beauty of the game that I love.

Being an Olympic athlete doesn’t change who you are as a person.

Being a two-way player that’s consistently transitioning from offense to defense, it’s imperative I fuel my body with an all-natural source of performance energy like Glukos that keeps my energy levels high.

My platform might be a little bigger than someone else’s, but everyone has a purpose.

We fight to win games and we fight for things off the field too.

When I put on my first Man Utd training kit, it felt enormous in a way that was really special in kind of like a childhood dream type way. Obviously, we don’t have that history in the U.S., so to be able to put on a shirt like that as an American was really special.

Everybody wants to be winners – you have to trust that God has a greater plan for this even when you can’t see it.

For the longest time people were like, ‘Oh you play soccer, what else do you do?’ Cause they couldn’t believe that you could just be women’s professional athlete. That’s really frustrating because it’s almost devaluing your actual skill and ability.

I’d love to see a global competition other than the World Cup.

That’s the easy part, to continue to do what you love, to focus, to train, there’s no extra motivation that needs to be added to that.

There are just so many parallels between sport and business.

I spent my whole life as a soccer player and I’ve honed every skill, I continue to hone them, you can never be good enough.

We believe that we get so that we can give, and we’ve been so blessed in the platforms and opportunities that we’ve been given.

Defending is easy. You just have to want to defend. It’s not like defending is hard. It’s just, like, more of an attitude.

Our God’s going to be victorious. He’s the Creator of the universe. I’m just a vessel trying to do my part with what I’ve been given.

I feel like, City, because they’re this modern global team, in the United States we think they’re a really big club. But here in Manchester, it’s not a big club.

I had an opportunity to play for Paris St-Germain when I was younger and it’s important for me to represent a club with that amount of history because of the type of footballer I am.

I can’t even imagine going through life without my relationship with Jesus.

I grew up loving Brazilian soccer. What made me think soccer was cool was these guys making soccer look like fun and easy, and they would just destroy people. It was an art. I loved that. And that’s the way I learned the game and mimicked a style. It’s just so beautiful.

I’m aware that I’m now a role model for younger players. I bring more maturity to practice – it’s more of a work environment to me, where I consciously work to get better each day.

I think I’m more traditional in how I do media. I want my brand to be about football.

Everyone wants to come to Portland to play, whether for us or against us.

Being a part of the Six Star team means I get to be a part of a fierce group of female athletes who have shown women that the right supplements can help us reach our fitness goals.

I think because of our society, and the way that I grew up in soccer, I had to become well-rounded, but I also cherished the parts of me that made me special. I’m thankful for that because it’s made me a better player.

Our family was just really passionate about Jesus.

There aren’t enough women-run businesses.

Each Olympics is different.

I think for people that have supported the women’s game for a long time, I think they understand the struggles that we have continually faced and that we’ve continually fought back against.

Ronaldinho is the best. I just like the joy and the love he has when he plays, it just shines for everyone else to see. He always does something nobody expects him to do. I think that’s really cool, that creativity you don’t find anywhere else.

I don’t really dwell on things.

There’s nothing better than being your own boss, especially after when you play soccer, you’re just controlled by so many different forces. So owning your own company and being your own bosses, it’s so liberating and freeing and you get to finally make decisions for yourself, which I think is really powerful.

It’s really cool to be not just winning and fighting for things on the field, but fighting for things off the field and doing so in a way through sport I think is really powerful.

I think that’s probably one of my favorite things – learning and creating incredible relationships and making mistakes and being responsible for that.

It’s easy to continue to go out to the field, even if I’m by myself or running and lifting and doing what I need to do – it’s actually easy because I love what I do.

The sport of soccer in general is very combative. People don’t realize it’s very one-on-one a lot of times.

I think I do get excited by challenges and I do find a sense of motivation and purpose within those.

Tactical and technical awareness can only improve and sharpen with time.

Obviously Manchester United’s tradition and history speaks for itself.

For me it was massive there was interest from Manchester United. To sign for such a club was important to me in my football career.

The NWSL is a great league. It’s so competitive from every single team and every single game. They have the right people and they are invested in it.

The ocean is so powerful and so healing at the same time. It’s kind of like a sanctuary. And the culture of the people in surfing, I love that. It’s such a community. It’s just got this, like, chill way about it. When you’re in the water, it’s very inclusive.

I was fortunate enough to grow up in a Christian home and an awesome family.

I don’t really like… fame in general.

In football in this country, we want to be able to check off every box of a soccer player. You have to be good at this and this and this. Because of our society, and the way that I grew up in soccer, I had to become well-rounded-but I also cherished the parts of me that made me special.

I want to play for a big club.

When it comes to the challenges of being an entrepreneur and a female, specifically a female entrepreneur, it’s something that we really have been living for a long time in a different pool.

I think it’s being able to do both, obviously being able to play your role in the team and those responsibilities but also being able to have that freedom… to express yourself in the way that you play.

Similar to the familiarity I’ve always had with the ball, there’s this familiarity that the game has given me over years of understanding it and living it.

We don’t make enough in our job to live the way that we would want to and to have the support that we would need. Most of our income doesn’t even come from our salary from our employer and we have to find income from other places.

Whether you’re an athlete or just someone aspiring to be at the top of your game – in the workplace, gym or even at home – it’s important to have that special something that sets you apart and helps you stay focused.

Every opportunity that you get in life to do something unique, that’s going to challenge you and push you, is an opportunity that I want to take, especially as a footballer.